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Welcome to ISPD 2010

ACM International Symposium on Physical Design San Francisco, CA, USA

March 14th-17th, 2010

General Chair: Prashant Saxena (Synopsys) TPC Chair: Yao-Wen Chang (Natl Taiwan U)

Intel Corporation

Sponsor: Technical co-sponsor: With additional financial support from:

Steering Committee

• Gi-Joon Nam (IBM Research)
• Patrick Groeneveld (Magma)
• Shankar Krishnamoorthy (Mentor Graphics)
• Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska (UCSB)
• David Z. Pan (Univ. Texas at Austin)

The Technical Program Committee

Ameya Agnihotri (Magma) Hongyu Chen (Mentor Graphics) Yi-Kan Cheng (TSMC) Helmut Graeb (TU Muenchen) Masanori Hashimoto (Osaka U) Jiang Hu (Texas A&M U) Cheng-Kok Koh (Purdue U) Seungweon Paek (Samsung) Ankur Srivastava (U of Maryland) Ting-Chi Wang (Natl Tsing-Hua U) Linda H. Wu (Synopsys) Yaping Zhan (AMD) Yao-Wen Chang (Natl Taiwan U) (Chair) C.-K. Cheng (UCSD) Salim Chowdhury (Sun) Lars Hagen (Cadence) Lei He (UCLA) Andrew Kennings (U of Waterloo) Igor Markov (U of Michigan) Rupesh Shelar (Intel) Cliff Sze (IBM Research) Martin D. F. Wong (UIUC) Evangeline Young (Chinese U of HK)

Publications Chair : Jiang Hu (Texas A&M U) Publicity Chair/ Webmaster : Cheng-Kok Koh (Purdue U)

The Technical Program

• 22 accepted papers (out of 72 initial

submissions)

• Exceptionally strong slate of 13 invited

Talks

• from Cadence, IBM Research, Intel,

Magma, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, UIUC, and U Minnesota

Best Paper Award Candidates

• FOARS: FLUTE Based Obstacle-Avoiding Rectilinear

Steiner Tree Construction (Gaurav Ajwani, Chris Chu, and Wai-Kei Mak) (Session 2)

• B-Escape: A Simultaneous Escape Routing Algorithm

Based on Boundary Routing (Lijuan Luo, Tan Yan, Qiang Ma, Martin D. F. Wong, and Toshiyuki Shibuya)

(Session 2)

• Skew Management of NBTI Impacted Gated Clock

Trees (Ashutosh Chakraborty and David Z. Pan)

(Session 7)

• SafeChoice: A Novel Clustering Algorithm for

Wirelength-Driven Placement (Jackey Z. Yan, Chris Chu, and Wai-Kei Mak) (Session 9)

And the Winner is…

B-Escape: A Simultaneous Escape Routing Algorithm Based on Boundary Routing

(Lijuan Luo*, Tan Yan*, Qiang Ma*, Martin

• D. F. Wong*, and Toshiyuki Shibuya**)

(Session 2)

* ECE Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ** Fujitsu Labs of America

The ISPD 2010 High Performance Clock Network Synthesis Contest

• Organized by Cliff Sze (IBM Research)
• 22 teams signed up from Universities all
• ver the globe; 10 survived
• Sponsored in part by ACM SIGDA and

by Intel Corporation

• Winners to be announced tomorrow

evening (Session 7)

Logistics

• Free Ethernet-based Internet access in guest

rooms

• The $12.95 charge you “accept” will be refunded by

the hotel in your final bill

• Free wireless Internet access in Symposium

room

• Limited bandwidth (Marriott AV11, golden11)
• Please focus on speaker rather than on Internet

Logistics

• ISPD is a workshop in spirit
• Questions are encouraged
• Interruptions are okay (unless speaker specifically requests

not to do so), but speaker may elect to defer answer until later

• Please state your name and affiliation before asking a

question

• Please set your cell-phones to silent/vibrate mode
• Lunches in Spada (hotel’s restaurant), Dinner

Banquets in Napa Ballroom (downstairs)

• Please wear your badge to Lunch/Dinner; it will double as your

meal ticket

Logistics

• Speakers
• Check in with your Session Chair in the break preceding your

session

• Keep on time
• By default, all slides are posted (as pdf’s) on the ISPD

website; if this is not okay, please inform your Session Chair

• Session Chairs
• Keep your sessions on time
• Know your speakers

Thank You!

• To ACM for sponsorship, and IEEE CAS for technical co-

sponsorship,

• To Cadence, IBM Research, Intel Corporation, Mentor Graphics,

SpringSoft, Sun Microsystems, and Synopsys (in alphabetical order), for their generous corporate financial support,

• To the Organizing Committee for managing the logistics for this

Symposium,

• To the TPC and the Steering Committee for putting together such a

strong program,

• To the Contest Chair for organizing the Clock Synthesis contest,
• To the authors and speakers, and the contestants,
• And to you; thank you for coming to San Francisco!

Keynote

Physical Design of Biological Systems

Dr Louis K. Scheffer

Howard Hughes Medical Institute